Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and St. Vincent mastermind Annie Clark recently teamed up for a record as well as a tour. They made their way to Boston’s Orpheum on Sunday night.
Recurrent tour-mates Callers and Wye Oak showcased different but complementary sounds running the gamut from jazz to shoegaze at Brighton Music Hall last Wednesday.
The Jesus and Mary Chain, notoriously short-tempered Scottish noise-pop pioneers, are in the midst of a reunion tour which brought them to the Paradise for two consecutive nights earlier this month. The Vandelles and The Psychic Paramount opened.
I wrote about and took some photos of everyone’s favorite hip-hop/indie rock crossover crew Why? when they played the Middle East last week. Check it out over at Allston Pudding.
Former Hüsker Dü member and Sugar frontman Bob Mould stopped by the Paradise last Monday for a sold out show featuring songs new and old, as well as an opening set from Cymbals Eat Guitars.
Drone-doom legends/fog enthusiasts Sunn O))) returned to Boston on Tuesday night for the first time in six years, and brought their Earth-rattling wall of amplifiers with them. Southern Lord label-mates Dead in the Dirt opened.